Lindybird: I love the idea of the Country Living tent - I could probably do a lot of $$$ damage there!
ForestBoar: Thanks for clarifying. Hope daughter can move there sooner than later.
Lynette: Ghastly situation for your bro with contractors peering in the windows. What a nerve!! My niece is going to Dorset (I had to Google Durdle Door) within the next couple of weeks with friends to look for fossils (they apparently got the correct tools after a previous trip!). I read Remarkable Creatures and loved it. I thought they were going to make a movie of it, but haven't been able to find if it was actually made. Love the idea of an ice cream farm! :-)
Take care all.
Just got time to post some more of my Flower Show pics:
After we came out of the big Marquee, we came across this lovely horse, made entirely of metal:
Isn't it beautiful? Its covered in flowers.....
Next to him, a floral peacock -- they were both very very expensive, but we can't remember the exact figure.
The Butterfly Dome --- this is a sad picture, for me, as I went there excited about going inside, and we thought we were early enough, but when my OH investigated, the queue (which is not visible here, but on the left hand side) we estimated to be about three quarters of an hour, to an hour long....... too long to spare when there are so many other things to see. Those allowed inside, in batches, were able to have butterflies landing on their shoulders and heads and were given a talk on the life cycles of these wonderful creatures.
I would have loved to have bought this bronze hare, but the price tag? - about £2,700........ He had other, much smaller ones on the stall which were only about £200 and I was sorely tempted to get the credit card out. But I didn't.
One of the smaller garden displays. Very green!
Another, with pretty planting, but strange glass panels in it....
There was a small area with "garden art" in it, but we wern't very impressed.
Rather sterile!
Humungously large cabbages!! in the Fruit & Vegetable Competition. I left the woman in the picture to give an idea of size. It would take a big Sunday lunch to get through one of these.....!
Potatoes and rhubarb. There were also competitions for the Best Plate of Red Berries, and some Green Beans a mile long. A lot of people came into this tent just to get out of the rain, which then poured down. A lot of wet steamy bodies! We stood in the doorway for a bit but eventually decided to just go outside and get on with things, and it did get less.
Some nice Stainless Steel, Wood and Copper items to put in your garden, on a stall. The fountains were pretty.
I'm really enjoying your photos, Lindy! I agree with you on the 'art'.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
By the way, anyone here like gannets? I visited the Bass Rock a few weeks ago:
Click on this one to see a few more.
Annoyingly having to wait for a call-back on the phone – I like to plan my own time, not be dictated to by others! Decided it was largely pain dragging me down yesterday so have resorted to painkillers today – hate them as they make me depressed, but since I was bad without them, I might as well be depressed but in less pain. Must explain, this is not the leg that was operated on but the other one, which doesn’t seem to want to get me anywhere!
Had an argument with J this morning – mislaid his credit cards! They had “got between two files” – all by themselves, apparently. This is a frequent occurrence, and I get so fed up with it. He spends forever “tidying”, but is never tidy and organised, and then tries to tell us he has OCD! He has since gone out! OH is also out, for groceries.
AQ – sorry changes in technology mean you have lost your early trip diaries! Good idea to print the later ones, then you have them in two formats to refer to. I hope the mystery soup was acceptable for lunch. Enjoy the Thursday/Friday trip! Liked Mother Julian’s Cat; was this one of the churches in Norwich? It used to be said that Norwich had a pub for every day of the year, and a church for every Sunday!
Linda – a job I always put off, altering trouser length – so I have some here for when you finish yours! More lovely show photos – loved that huge horse, and would have been tempted by the Hare (a small version). That “garden art” looked more suited to a graveyard!
Clare – you are getting around a lot – lovely Gannets at Bass Rock!
No phonecall yet – and now see I have to sign in here to send!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Can anyone please ID this plant. It is only about 15cm max height and always has flowers in August on the tips of its growth. They open into flowers a bit like Campanulas, but do not hang down like them. We know it in the family as "Blue Balls", after the buds, have had it a long time, don't remember if it had a label, and can't remember where we acquired it!
Morning all:
Clare: Tx for pix!
AQ: Nice stained glass - cat is probably looking for food or something.... "me, me, me...
Lindybird: I've seen some pretty elaborate horse sculptures here, typically made out of a sort of rusted bronze material and much larger pieces, but still very lifelike. Also very expensive! Wonder if yours are rustproof - they'd have to be in England, right? Wonder how they anchor that elaborate peacock in the ground. Could be dangerous! :-) Too bad about the butterfly display. Our Natural History Museum typically has a Butterflies Alive display each summer, but they're redoing the area this year.... Was hoping to take Ms. D there, but we ended up with the rescued falcons and owls, etc, which were wonderful. Wonder who spends almost 3K pounds on a garden ornament - whoops - sorry - garden sculpture at that price. Also wondering how you'd keep those glass panels clean (maybe they're there to intensify the sun??) Who knows.... Didn't notice the size of those cabbages until I saw the woman there. Amazing.
OG: Very logical thinking re painkillers. Oh dear, J sounds very much like my OH - lots of time spent "organizing" but can he ever find anything? No! Grrrr.
Off to pick up daughter from airport.
Unknown said: Can anyone please ID this plant. It is only about 15cm max height and always has flowers in August on the tips of its growth. They open into flowers a bit like Campanulas, but do not hang down like them. We know it in the family as "Blue Balls", after the buds, have had it a long time, don't remember if it had a label, and can't remember where we acquired it!
The morning phonecall did happen, and I got the wheelchair successfully ordered - delivery "within the week"!
Lovely day here - J is ironing in the dining room with the patio door wide open - Sparrows on bird feeder just outside seem very interested! OH is making pork casserole for dinner; just wondering from the smell what stock he used - hope its vege and not beef!
Yes - it is vegetable stock cube!